The British public saw the Tories as the party who failed to keep us out of a world war. It was more that than any dislike for Churchill.

Also Labour’s 1945 manifesto promised a ‘new Jerusalem’, with a health service, new housing, increased wages, all of which seemed wonderful to people whose lives and houses had been literally shattered by six years of war.

I can fully understand why people thought they would be better to lead Britain postwar.